Useful Reading
Here are a few things to help you while on the rotation. First, stop by our fetal monitoring web page and do the self-guided tutorials. This well help you understand fetal tracings and give you the opportunity to quiz yourself on them.
This FHR interpretation slide deck is a very good one, it describes algorithms for dealing with tracings and provides case examples.
Then, check out these articles on Howardisms that are designed for students:
- What Should Be Done At The Yearly Visit?
- What Should Be Done At The Postpartum Visit?
- What Birth Control Should I Prescribe?
- How Should I Do A Breast Exam?
- How Do I Make a Differential Diagnosis? Or, Pelvic Pain
- How Do I Diagnose a UTI?
- How Do I Diagnose Ruptured Membranes: Bayesian Statistics at its Best
- Which Drug Should I Prescribe?
- How Do I Know if a Study is Valid?
Female Exam Slide set about how to do a pelvic exam.
OB visits document that lists what medical intervention and education is necessary at each obstetric visit.
And here’s something I call the Howard Zones. This is a chart that shows the basic management of several obstetrical diagnoses, according to gestational age. The four zones are A (37-41 weeks), B (34-37 weeks), C (24-34 weeks), and D (less than 24 weeks). There is some overlap, however the management of many diagnoses changes depending on the zone.
Here is a textbook to help you build differential diagnoses and recognize diagnostic scripts.
If you’re done with the basics and ready to read more, head on over to the howardisms website for more articles about practicing evidence based medicine, understanding statistics, bias, the art of doctoring, life, and much more.
Here is a larger list of OB/GYN relevant articles as seen on howardisms:
Obstetrics/Gynecology
- What Should Be Done At Routine Prenatal Visits?
- Important Paper: The PORTO Study
- Do The NHS Birth Recommendations Have Meaning for The US? Or, The Safety of Home Birth
- What Does the T in TVH Stand For?
- How Should You Date A Pregnancy?
- Prenatal Antidepressants and Autism? Mi dispiace!
- The Real Risks of Hormone Replacement Therapy
- Post-Tubal Ligation Syndrome (Or, Post-IUD Syndrome)
- One Too Many?
- Will The Real Cowboy Please Stand Up? Harmful Practices and Harmful Culture in Ob/Gyn
- To Induce or Not To Induce: The 39 Weeks “Debate” (Part 1)
- To Induce or Not To Induce: The 39 Weeks “Debate” (Part 2)
- To Induce or Not To Induce: The 39 Weeks “Debate” (Part 3)
- Should We Administer Betamethasone to Women at Risk of Late Preterm Birth?
- Reducing Cesareans Infographic
- Is Hydration Useful for the Management of Oligohydramnios? Or Should We Even Care?
- Magesium Part 1: To Prevent Maternal Seizure
- Magnesium Part 2: To Prevent Preterm Labor
- Magnesium Part 3: To Prevent Cerebral Palsy
- Lessons Learned From Magnesium
- When Did Breastfeeding Become a Disease?
- Secrets of the Menstrual Cycle
- Paved With Good Intentions … Or, How Do I Do a Vaginal Delivery?
- Data Dreams
- An Air of Legitimacy, A Hindrance to Progress
- OB Potpourri 3.0
Four Tips
- Four Tips for Preventing Perineal Trauma: The Grip
- Four Tips for Removing a Nexplanon
- Four Tips for Using A Quantitative HCG Test
- Four Tips for Performing a Hysterosalpingogram (HSG)
- Four Tips to Reduce Pain After Laparoscopy
- Four Tips for Correctly Diagnosing Uterine Anomalies
- Four Tips to Reduce Your Cesarean Delivery Rate
- Four Tips for Correctly Diagnosing Vaginitis
- Four Tips for Initial Laparoscopic Entry
- Four Tips for Easy Postpartum Tubal Ligation
Vaginal Hysterectomy
- Simplified Vaginal Hysterectomy
- Four Tips For Vaginal Hysterectomy
- To Cysto or Not To Cysto….
- Four Tips for a Non-Descending Uterus
- What’s Old Is New Again
Surgeries